Word: suggestibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suggest that these so-called environmentalists keep listening to their music and before long they will not even hear the Concorde take...
...Department of Justice expert on organized crime: "The gangsters are smart enough to know that getting rid of a reporter only causes more trouble than the reporter could stir up in the first place." Arizona authorities finger home-grown mobsters as more likely to commit such an act. They suggest that, despite his apparent loss of interest, Bolles may have been close to linking some big names to illegal schemes. Phoenix Police Lieutenant Jack Bentley told TIME Correspondent William F. Marmon Jr.: "Bolles had reams of stuff in his files that was very damaging but never printed. We have volumes...
...safely begin to drink in moderation and those who might immediately go off the deep end into alcoholism again. Their recommendation: "Alcoholics who have repeatedly failed to moderate their drinking or have irrevocable physical complications due to alcoholism should not drink at all." Instead, they said, their findings suggest that in treating alcoholism, goals be set that are more "flexible" than only abstinence. Their views were shared by Dr. Morris Chafetz, former director of N.I.A.A.A., who calls current thinking about the treatment of alcoholism "rigid, stereotypic and possibly self-defeating. For a person who lives in a drinking society...
...argue that Harvard should prohibit enrollment in ROTC on moral grounds leads to the conclusion that it should extend moral judgements to other student activities. If the United States Army is evil, then the federal government that controls it is likewise evil. But no one would suggest that Harvard should prevent students from taking summer internships in the federal government. If Harvard is obliged to resist "complicity" in the evil allegedly perpetrated by the American military, shouldn't it also proscribe students from government employment, campaign work for pro-military political candidates, and any number of other supposedly immoral activities...
...objectives without considering less intrusive ways of achieving their goals. When the government, acted, however, strong pressures were already developing on many campuses to devote more attention to hiring women and minorities. There was also little evidence to show that minority faculty were victimized by systematic discrimination; careful studies suggest that these professors were already receiving larger salaries than white colleagues of comparable background and experience." Only as an afterthough did Bok concede, "Higher education can certainly be criticized for its past record in these areas...